Wireless Printing

UPDATE: Please ignore all the convoluted instructions below! I have just
tried emailing a document directly from Hotmail on my Jornada to my
wireless printer and it works. It just doesn't work with GMail.

I was originally going to do a detailed tutorial on this, but having
given it some thought, it is probably a bit too "niche", even for this
blog. It depends on you having an HP Wireless printer set up with it's
own email address.

If you do, I'll not go into huge amounts of detail, but you can use
IFTTT to print any document you upload to a public Dropbox folder.

I tried to email the files directly in the first place, but it seems the
HP ePrint  service rejects any emails that don't have the correct security
certificates. These certificates are only sent when you use the GMail web
app but not when you use POP with GMail. I have not tested with another
email provider.

This recipe on IFTTT can be configured to email any document that you
place in a special "PrintThis" folder in Dropbox to your HP Wireless
printer's email address.
In a previous post, I demonstrated how to remotely access cloud
storage via FTP on the Jornada 720. Using this to upload any file to
the "PrintThis" folder will send the file to your printer.

It's not instant: it may take a while for it to reach your printer,
but it works.

Sent from my HP Jornada 720

Connecting To The Cloud

Yes, believe it or not, it is possible. You can connect to Google
Drive, Skydrive, Dropbox etc. from the trusty old Jornada HPC.

I looked into this for a long time: trying the webdav plugin for Total
Commander, and playing around with services such as attachments.me
(the latter allows you to send attachments to the cloud as email
attachments), but not to any great success.

Then I stumbled upon storagemadeeasy.com. I was looking for some free
method of accessing my files in the cloud, and have so far not found a
way. This service is quite cheap though, and not only provides a way
to download to and upload from the Handheld PC, but has some nifty
tools for accessing the same on your desktop PC or even from Libre
Office on a portable flash drive.

Once signed up to the free service, which allows you to connect to up
to three of your cloud storage services, you can add FTP access for a
one time fee of around $20 or £12.

Once this is done, you can add the settings to Resco Explorer's FTP
plug-in (see image), and away you go.

I expect this should work in Total Commander too but have not tried
it.

I have also used this to print to an HP wireless printer, but more on
that another time.

Sent from my HP Jornada 720